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“the US should be investing in higher education and advanced research while making friends around the world. But the US refusal to make those common-sense choices is part of the same pathology that makes US elites obsess about China.” un-diplomatic.com/p/the-us-cant-…

"We've got to stop having these momentous decisions taken by small groups of people in private." Malcolm Turnbull & Emma Shortis discuss Australia's AUKUS disaster. "The government sacrificed sovereignty to get security & it looks like we're going to lose both." Link🔽 #auspol

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel spent $15 million helping JD Vance win a U.S. Senate seat. That investment is clearly continuing to pay off. Big money corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to the top.

We covered the 28 Days Later trilogy in the latest episode of Bang-Bang, and boy did we have a lot to say about the geopolitics of zombies. 1/x

Fifteen seats now.

An unlikely threat to what remains of the “East Asian peace”

This is equally true about international relations as a discipline, and that tracks because IR borrows heavily from economics

America’s disastrous track record of bodies and bullets in the Middle East is not because of oil—it’s because of a misplaced belief in Israeli primacy

Political theorists looking at the list of professions to be replaced by AI

This is so enraging that I’m not sure what to say. In a just world, BCG would be subject to global sanctions and the ICC would be getting busy. In this world, everything’s down to direct action, boycotts, and reputational damage I guess

Must-read discussion of China’s push for industrial automation with Prof. Sun Zhongwei. A few highlights: - China’s push for automation was due to labor shortage, not the cause of it. Workers don’t want factory jobs, prefer pay and conditions at service jobs. Factories were

Amazing. Zohran’s got Wu-Tang, Run The Jewels, and The Lox in his corner, backing a practical socialist program to make New York affordable. The biggest voices in hip-hop from the neoliberal era have embraced social democracy

🚨NEW: Former U.S. Green Beret Anthony Aguilar says he routinely witnessed Israeli forces (IDF) firing artillery tank rounds and mortar rounds into crowds of unarmed, starving Palestinians at GHF aid sites in Gaza. “I witnessed war crimes,” the GHF security contractor told the

Correct. “Technology theft” is technology transfer is refusing the quasi-monopolies of rich countries’ wealth hoarding via systems of unequal exchange.

A little too on the nose for Germany to be going fascist in response to peace protests

Encinitas strong, fuck ICE 💪💪💪

Best anti-ICE freestyle from my man Hazerd: “Shoutout to the white homies using they privileges for good. I ain’t saying cuz you white that your ride has been easy, but statistically the cops are gonna do you less greasy.”

China accomplished this as part of a strategic detente with the US. Under conditions of persistent great-power rivalry—our current situation—that miracle would not have been possible